The cruise lines have been getting away with too much for far too long. They control what tours are sold on their ships and for what price. They also went as far as copying all of the local tours and duplicating them on their private islands. Then they set the prices in Nassau and Freeport higher then their tours on their private islands. To add more salt to the wound, then the cruise lines come back to the local operators demanding new tours. When the local operators cannot comply the cruise lines go to the government and say that there is nothing to do or there are no quality local tours. The MOT takes their word for it because they are either too lazy or too ignorant to check the facts. About 8 years ago a few local operators got together to fight for equality. They got no support from the government and got picked off by the cruise lines one by one. I used to work for one of those companies. Out of all the original local tour companies, only a handful are still here. The rest have either closed down on their own were were put out of business by the cruise line. On top of the issues with the cruise lines, the local operators have to compete with foreigners comming in with Bahamians fronting for them. All of this privy and under the eye of the government.